These scones are a fantastic way to use garden fresh berries. Other flavors, especially herbs, can be used straight from the garden as well. The fruit can be varied, but make sure it’s soft, grate or finely chop hard fruit like apple before stirring in or the finished scone will fall apart. We like to limit the amount of almond flour baked goods that we eat to 1-2 a week, and these scones make the cut quite often!
Almond flour, though GAPS legal and more nutrient dense than white flour, can too often displace the healthy fats, meats, fish, vegetables, and broth that are needed for healing on GAPS. A nice compromise is to have each family member drink a cup of hot or cold broth before eating their baked good.
Almond-berry Scones
Ingredients:
2.5 cups of almond flour (where to buy)
1/2 tsp sea salt (where to buy)
2 eggs
4 tablespoons honey or other natural sweetener or 4 dates, pureed (where to buy)
1/3 cup melted butter or ghee (where to buy)
1/2 cup fresh or frozen berries
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Grease a baking sheet with butter or coconut oil.
In a medium bowl, mix together dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl, whisk eggs until combined. Add melted butter, and honey.
Combine wet and dry ingredients.
Fold in berries.
Drop ¼ cup of dough onto the baking sheet, shape into triangle shapes.
Bake 15 minutes.
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These look delicious!!!
Thank you! My daughter, who is recently become gf, has been wanting scones and now we are going to try these today! They look delish!
I am going to try those out this afternoon! I do have one question if you, or anyone else here, could answer it : what is the difference between the GAPS diet and the SCD diet?
These look so good! How many does it make?
I always forget to put that! It makes about 6 decent sized scones, but they could be made smaller or bigger- just adjust the baking time.
Is that 15-minute baking time correct? I made 8 scones out of a batch and baked them for closer to 45 minutes. (They were yummy, thanks for the recipe!)
The GAPS diet uses a specific detoxification protocol along with everything on SCD. The introduction diets are different as well, we’ve had better success with the GAPS intro if that helps
almond flour is different than almond meal??
Almond flour is a little less course. I’ve heard of people using a mortar and pestle to pound almond meal into smaller ‘flour’ before though
These look so delectable Cara! I’ll adjust to veganize it for me. Do you think fresh strawberries will hold too much moisture and make the scones soggy? I’ve not used almond flour by itself yet. I felt it might be too heavy (and I have a funky oven).
I think I’d use dried strawberries- do you have a dehydrator?
For the person asking about dried berries.. Just Tomatoes makes a wide variety of freeze dried fruits and veggies.. which helps them keep their flavor and nutrients better than dehydrated ones.. http://www.justtomatoes.com/jtstore/pc/home.asp
Cara, have you had any luck making these with coconut flour?
We have tree nut allergies.
Thanks,
T~
Could I use oat flour instead of almond floour?
I’ve made these scones a few times. My boyfriend and I are on the gaps diet and I needed a good moist treat for us.
They are amazing and people I work with gobble them right up when I bring them around. I use closer to a whole cup of fruit though. Enjoyyyyyyyyyyy
I just made these and they are amazing, we missed the texture of baked goods.
Also, this is so simple. It takes minutes. Unlike some of the other recipes I have seen for scones.
I just made these and they are amazing, we missed the texture of baked goods.
Also, this is so simple. It takes minutes. Unlike some of the other recipes I have seen for scones.
These look wonderful! Will these work with ground up, soaked and dehydrated almonds? Also is Honeyville almond flour GAPS legal? Thanks for all your recipes!
Should there be a raising agent (eg Bicarb soda) in this recipe?
You can add half a teaspoon if you want, but it does fine without it. Baking Soda is iffy on GAPS
Hi! Just starting gaps..and need some treats for my little guy. My question is if I use frozen strawberries, should i thaw them first before mixing them with the other ingredients? Thanks for all your recipes!
these look DELISH!!
thank you SO very much!
- tanya